Toyota Celica (1970)
W hen I was small, Toyota Celica was the most popular coupe on streets. Many boy racers drove the first and second generation Celicas with various degrees of modifications. They were loud. They were tough. They were flamboyant. They were cheap to buy, repair and upgrade – very much like American pony cars – but they were also compact and frugal. That’s why they were hugely popular in Asian countries. Later generations no longer enjoyed such popularity though. The history of Celica just reflected the rise and fall of coupe-mania in the world. 1960s and 70s was the peak of coupe-mania, when Celica, Mustang and Camaro sold like hot cakes. Since then the fever cooled ...

1996 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST185
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The Group A Toyota Celica GT-Four RC/ST185 made its competition debut on the Monte Carlo Rally, the opening round of the 1992 World Rally Championship series, the beginning of a competition history that was to be even more successful than its illustrious predecessor, the ST165.
It took great skill and ingenuity on the part of the designers and engineers tasked with developing the ST185 to come up with a machine capable of meeting all the performance and handling demands of international rallying. The finished product was named the ‘Carlos Sainz Edition’ in honour of the achievements of the celebrated Spanish driver, who in 1990 had ...

New Toyota GT 86 Sports Coupe with 2.0-liter Engine Officially Revealed in Production Guise [Updated]
The wait for the most hotly anticipated (and teased, may we add..) sports cars of the year, the production version of the Toyota FT-86 2+2 coupe. is finally over as the Japanese automaker came out with all the juicy details ahead of the car’s world premiere at the at the Tokyo motor show on November 30.
In Europe, the new Toyota will be called the GT 86 in tribute to the Japanese firm’s GT car heritage and especially the Corolla GT (or Levin) AE86, which inspired its creation. The Japanese domestic market version will be aptly called 86.
The GT 86 is the result of a joint Toyota ...

Ammonia fueled sports car: Marangoni Toyota GT86 Eco Explorer
The Marangoni Toyota GT86 Eco Explorer
A new sports car that uses ammonia fuel is touring the motor shows of Europe.
The Marangoni Toyota GT-86 Eco-Explorer is an ammonia / gasoline hybrid, designed by Italian tyre-maker Marangoni, which claims 111 miles of zero-emission driving from one tank of ammonia.
The Eco Explorer was first shown at the Geneva Motor Show (March 7-17) in Switzerland, and then at the Gadget Show Live in the UK (April 3-7) and Top Marques in Monaco (April 18-21). Its next stop is Tuning World Bodensee in Friedrichshafen, Germany (May 9-12).
From Marangoni’s Eco Explorer microsite. which features extensive ...

2014 Toyota FT-86 Open Concept news, pictures, specifications, and information
TMC to Display ‘FT-86 Open concept’ at Geneva Motor Show
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will display the ‘FT-86 Open concept’, a rear-wheel-drive sports convertible, at the 83rd Geneva International Motor Show1. The show will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from March 5 through 172.
The FT-86 Open concept is a study model based on the rear-wheel-drive sports car ’86’3 that was created to test and verify potential sports car variations. The concept features an electrically operated soft top, allowing a feeling of oneness wîth nature while maintaining the joy and sense of oneness ...

Toyota GT86 turbo, convertible, sedan variants back on the table
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Okay Toyota. make up your mind. Figure it out. Quit playing games with our heart. Either build a bunch of variations of the excellent GT86 (also known as the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ ) or don’t. At this point, we’re just tired of the back and forth. After no shortage of denials, an Australian website is claiming that Toyota is reconsidering convertible, four-door, turbocharged and all-wheel-drive hybrid variants of the GT86. Kindly pass all the salt.
It’s not that we don’t want to believe the Aussies; we do. But when the story lists the same sources in Japan as a lot of the other denials ...

Toyota GT 86: Sweet coupe strikes perfect balance
Forget practical, the 86 gives drivers what they really need
Toyota’s GT 96 is, after much hype, all it’s cracked up to be. Photo / Ted Baghurst
Carmakers spend a lot of time figuring out what buyers’ needs are. This usually results in radically over-specced vehicles with huge option lists to take it even further and, generally, a few more cup holders.
But when it comes to buyers’ wants, it’s a whole different story. Do you want a vehicle that looks like a lanky station wagon, can fit the obligatory 2.5 kids, piles of luggage and a dog and drives like it’s more of a household appliance than a car? Or just ...

IT’S WAR! | Hyundai Genesis Coupé vs Toyota 86
Toyota 86 with Aero kit. Photo by Jing Garcia, InterAksyon.com
Hyundai Genesis Coupé. Photo by Randy Gomez
The highly anticipated slugfest between two pocket rockets from two of the World’s most aggressive brands, Toyota and Hyundai was bound to happen. The inevitability of a showdown started for both cars the moment their engineers went up the drawing boards to design both the Toyota 86 and the Hyundai Genesis Coupé. Although Hyundai’s Sports Coupé has been the performance benchmark for the past couple of years, the hugely popular Genesis Coupé is not about to give up its throne without a fight from the tail happy T86. If Toyota ...

TOYOTA CELICA GT-FOUR ST205: PH HEROES
The 90s were the heyday of the Japanese performance car, with most manufacturers from the Land of the Rising Sun producing more than one hot model. In stark contrast to today, Toyota was the prime mover — with three proper sports cars in the range. But whilst the MR2 and Supra may have grabbed the majority of the attention, it was the Celica GT-Four that garnered the most motorsport success — winning a total of 30 rallies in ST165, ST185 and ST205 guises.
With or without stickers it’s ready to rally
Sadly the 1994 Ј29,235 asking price for a road-going ST205 version put the model out of reach of most UK buyers — compared to a ...

1984 Toyota Corolla Levin GTV — Back To The Future
With revs approaching five digits per tacho sweep, second gear became third, third quickly became fourth and fourth was swapped for fifth.
The unmistakable sound of a highly-strung, naturally-aspirated four-cylinder engine resonated across the valley. With revs approaching five digits per tacho sweep, second gear became third, third quickly became fourth and fourth was swapped for fifth. And then it appeared. Not the Atlantic series open wheeler one could easily imagine as the source of the aural symphony, but an AE86 Corolla meticulously engineered with full Toyota Racing Developments N2-spec mechanical underpinnings, and 1980s period-correct ...